University of the Pacific boasts sizable John Muir archive

Naturalist John Muir (1838-1914), famous for helping preserve Yosemite as a park and founding the Sierra Club, left behind a trove of writings and artwork relating to his adventures in nature. As university archivist Michael Wurtz explains, many of his descendants are Pacific alumni, so when the family went looking for a place to house his papers, they decided on Pacific.